EXELON CORPORATION Byron Generating Station Unit 1 automatically shut down at 11:01 a.m. CDT Tuesday. Initial indications are that ice intrusion interrupted power on one of the unit's transformers.
BYRON, Ill. - Byron Generating Station Unit 1 automatically shut down at 11:01 a.m. CDT Tuesday. Initial indications are that ice intrusion interrupted power on one of the unit's transformers.
Station experts will make the repairs to the transformer and return the unit to service. The unit responded as designed during the shutdown.
Byron Unit 2 continues to operate at full power.
Byron Station is located in Ogle County, Ill., about 25 miles southwest of Rockford. With both units at full power, the site produces enough electricity for about 2.3 million homes.
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Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with 2014 revenues of approximately $27.4 billion. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon does business in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Exelon is one of the largest competitive U.S. power generators, with approximately 32,500 megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation's cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets. The company's Constellation business unit provides energy products and services to more than 2.5 million residential, public sector and business customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100. Exelon's utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to more than 7.8 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern Illinois (ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO).
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